Comments on: Software Needs and Nerds https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/07/software-needs-and-nerds/ Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:42:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/07/software-needs-and-nerds/#comment-490329 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:42:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/01/07/software-needs-and-nerds/#comment-490329 Yes, I’ve used those commands. They’re quite useful. At one point I had a date command format the current date and time into the strange way my blogging software required it, and stuck it on the clipboard. That would definitively be part of the solution.

cat [filename] | xclip -selection clipboard

Somewhere around here I’ve got a python script that takes standard input and puts it on the clipboard.

]]> By: mortimer https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/07/software-needs-and-nerds/#comment-490328 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:06:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/01/07/software-needs-and-nerds/#comment-490328 for the second task, you might want to check:
http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/command-line-to-clipboard/

once you have the script, then you can bind it to whatever you want, maybe gnomeDo or other.

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